yet another bounced messgae [non-member submission] jeffs -- Jeff Sonstein, M.A. http://ariadne.iz.net/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc ============================================== there are no bugs there are just undocumented features -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Non-member submission from ["J. Eric Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 7 16:26:38 1999 Received: from vrtmail.robocity (vrtmail.vrtelecom.com [209.195.170.44]) by ariadne.iz.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28276 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: by VRTMAIL with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <4DFA2CB6>; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:17:24 -0400 Message-ID: <CC59868A0A76D311B1F50090277B321C06FFFD@VRTMAIL> From: "J. Eric Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED] '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED] '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [fruitsoflivingworlds] Re: Persistence and server record mode ls Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:17:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For those who care about exact limits, I don't have the code in front of me right now, but to my recollection; - The underlying message format used by Holodesk's MuTech handles messages up to 1MB, and glib's anything over a defined threshold (under the assumption that it's useful to do so -- not always true) which is tuned for ~56K transmission - The carrier method is a simple TCP stream, so there is that long wait for the next message if you create something huge. (Sorry, didn't write that part! :) - Our extended Living Worlds content messages have some additional limitations: - MF fields can have no more than 32K elements - Strings can be no more than 64K characters (after conversion from Unicode to multibyte) - There is overhead in the format for each field, effect maximum size of "small" (<64K) message payload. Caveot: I don't believe anyone's attempted sending a message seriously in excess of 1MB. I know it works up to and just above that point (whereupon the messaging library changes the meaning of counts in the packet to mean "doublewords" instead of bytes) but I've never seen content that pushed the range of 256K-1MB yet. JEM -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fletcher To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/7/99 4:03 PM Subject: [fruitsoflivingworlds] Re: Persistence and server record models [1] Note: Blaxxun has a hard message size limit (300Bytes?), I don't try anything over 65K on Holodesk Communicator (I haven't looked to see if there's a problem there, Eric coded that stuff, but I just don't try it anyway because Communicator is heavily optimised for small messages), don't have any information about the others, but the specification says nothing about limiting state size, so in theory they should all support it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/fruitsoflivingworlds http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications
